Rajan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: king. ruler; Ksatriya
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹəʒən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rajan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 4.3K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rajan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 596 (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
13 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ราชันย์ in TH Thailand and Rajon in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
king. ruler; Ksatriya.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rajan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 596 | — | Rajan | 77 |
| BD Bangladesh | #406 | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Rajon | 52 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Rajan | 43 |
| TH Thailand | #590 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | #526,137 | ราชันย์ | 88 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #300 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Rajan | 81 |
| US United States | — | 2,535 | 1 in 131K | 3.2K | Rajan | 305 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,245 | 1 in 2.5K | 1.2K | — | — |
| OM Oman | #152 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Rajan | 27 |
| KW Kuwait | #441 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Rajan | 27 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rajan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, One who represents life, living, and all the dynamism that existence brings
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Russian, var of Raian.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of rajar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of raja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rajan Menonb. 1953USpolitical scientist
- Rajan Vaidb. 1973AUAustralian politician
- Karan Rajan Rajarajanb. 1996INbadminton player
- Rajan SawhneyCACanadian politician
- Rajan GhimireUSresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-6962-6066
- Rajan T Guptaresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.5K | #6,359 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 1.2K | #381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 50 | #6,359 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 4 | #381 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Rajan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəʒən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Rajan mean, and where does it come from?
- king. ruler; Ksatriya. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- In which country does Rajan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Rajan in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rajan.
- Is Rajan a male or female name?
- Rajan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Rajan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,535 people named Rajan in 2020, about 1 in 131 thousand residents.
- How common is Rajan compared with other names?
- In Oman, Rajan is the 152nd most common given name of 4,945 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rajanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rajan” — the 152nd most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.